ALBANY - Capital Region residents will wake up to a chance of snow flurries and showers on Monday morning and parts of the area could see the first true accumulation of snow this season.

Between 2 and 4 inches of lake effect snow could fall in outlying parts of the Mohawk Valley and the Schoharie Valley as well as the western Adirondack Mountains, the National Weather Service said Sunday.

"The best chance being in Amsterdam and west," meteorologist Brian Frugis said.

Lake effect snow is expected to continue with bands lifting northward Monday morning. It is uncertain how far inland from Lake Ontario the snow will extend, the weather service said.

Frugis also said that the gusty wind will calm as the morning goes on, but it will still be blustery with winds gusts up to 20 to 25 mph.

The winds topped 50 mph on Sunday. By Sunday afternoon, more than 5,000 National Grid customers and another 176 customers with New York State Electric and Gas were left without service. The outages were spread throughout Albany, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Schenectady and Saratoga counties.

Service was slowly restored throughout the day.

The weather service also said the winds could continue to knock down trees, limbs and power lines on Monday.

Temperature will also be below normal on Monday with highs expected to only be about 40 degrees. Overnight lows will reach into the 20s on Monday night.